my guest today is minette batters. she farms right here, she s also president of the national farmers union. as a society, are we asking our farmers for the impossible? minette batters, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s a great pleasure to be on yourfarm. and the sun is shining and, in some ways, you would think the sun would be shining on farmers. food prices are spiralling higher. you would think that would be good news for farmers. is it? it s it s quite extraordinary. i don t think, in my lifetime, i ve ever faced into anything like the cost inflation that we re facing with our inputs now. so, we re seeing triple digit inflation on on fertiliser, we ve seen diesel costs up by 57%, feed costs up by nearly 60%. these are huge price pressures and, of course. you have chosen to alight upon the price pressures, i chose to start by talking about the prices you are receiving because we know that consumers are struggling to meet the prices of the basic foods
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my guest today is minette batters, she farms right here, she s also president of the national farmers union. as a society, are we asking our farmers for the impossible? minette batters, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s a great pleasure to be on yourfarm and the sun is shining, and in some ways you would think the sun would be shining on farmers. food prices are spiralling higher, you would think that would be good news forfarmers, is it? it s quite extraordinary. i don t think in my lifetime i have everfaced into anything like the cost inflation we are facing with our inputs now. we are seeing triple digit inflation on fertiliser, we ve seen diesel costs up by 57%, feed costs up by nearly 60%, these are huge price pressures. you have chosen to alight upon the price pressures, i ve chose to start about talking about the prices you are receiving because we know that consumers are struggling to meet the prices of the basic food stuffs that they buy at the super
as the cost of living rises, the long awaited plan on the future of food in england is being published. but the man behind the review says the government s vision is not detailed enough. is it the big, bold, unified strategy that i think we need? no. is it progress, you know, am i.? do i think we re going in the right direction? yes. personal items belonging to missing britishjournalist dom phillips and his brazilian colleague are discovered by police in a remote area of the amazon rainforest, a week after the pair went missing. and, a warning that lives could be at risk after a bbc panorama investigation finds the uk s biggest chain of gp practices lets less qualified staff see patients without adequate supervision. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. watching in the uk russia has been accused of killing hundreds of civilians in ukraine s second biggest city, kharkiv, through indiscriminate shelling. amnesty international says it has evidence